Task 1: Country Fact file

Brazil
Capital: Brasília
Total Area: 8,514,877 sq km
Population: 203,429,773 (July 2011 est.)
Languages: Portuguese ,German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages

Task 2: Location and Climate

Task 3: Economic Production

What is the GDP? (Purchasing Power Parity)
$2.172 trillion (2010 est.)

How does this compare with the rest of the world?
9th in the world.

What is the GDP per capita?
$10,800 (2010 est.)

How does this compare with the rest of the world?
102

What is the Unemployment rate?
6.7%

What is the percentage of people below the poverty line?
26%

What are this country's main agricultural products?
Coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef.

What are this country's main industries?
Textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment.

Export partners?
China 15.2%, US 9.6%, Argentina 9.2%, Netherlands 5.1%, Germany 4% (2010)

Import partners?
US 15%, China 14.1%, Argentina 7.9%, Germany 6.9%, South Korea 4.6% (2010)

Task 4:POPULATION SIZE, SHAPE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY

What is the total population of this country?

• 201,103 is the population (2010)

What is the average life expectancy?

• 72 years (2010)

How many children is a woman expected to have in this country? (This is the Total Fertility Rate.)

• 2.2 Is the total fertility rate (2010)

Infant mortality:

• 21.17 deaths/1,000 live births
  Country comparison: 93

Task 5: What is it like to live there?

like to live there

(reuters) Brazil's government is racing to forge a deal in congress this week that it hopes it will prevent a lengthy legal and political battle over its huge offshore oil reserves .

the two big events happening in Brazil today . include oil's future hinges on a bill to share wealth.

Brazil's states and cities have been quarreling for years over how to distribute the expected multi-trillion-dollar windfall from one of the world's biggest recent oil finds. Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called the so-called "subsalt" fields, discovered in 2007, "a gift from God" that could make Brazil a rich country.
President Dilma Rousseff's government is now trying to defuse the arguments by offering a cut of its own take in future royalties from the fields. Officials are confident Congress will approve the government proposal in coming days or weeks.
"We're at ease. The interested sides are hard at work ... and by the looks of it, they're forging a quite significant majority," Gilberto Carvalho, general-secretary of the president's office, told Reuters.
Yet some leading politicians are still balking at the proposal or threatening legal action. The final outcome is up in the air at a time when Rousseff's relationship with Congress has been poisoned by budget cuts and other problems.
At stake is Brazil's plan to become one of the world's largest suppliers of oil outside of OPEC and to ensure revenue to finance improvements in infrastructure, health programs and education, which are crucial to entering the ranks of developed nations.
The final outcome will have major implications for state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA)(PBR.N), and possibly for multinational energy companies such as Italy's (ENI.MI) and Norway's Norsk Hydro (NHY.OL), who have expressed interest in helping Brazil develop the fields.
So far Brazil is pumping only a small fraction of the subsalt fields and requires tens of billions of dollars to develop the remaining reserves.
An agreement on distributing oil revenues is needed for the government to go ahead with a planned auction next year for the rights to develop the vast oil fields.

Here is an extract from the website;

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/businesspro-us-brazil-royalties-idUSTRE7924TZ20111003 or
http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil

the other event is Brazil rejects debt purchase plan

(Reuters) - Brazil on Tuesday rejected the idea of buying European bonds to help ease the euro zone's debt crisis, casting doubt on a plan for major emerging market economies to offer fresh funds for the continent's rescue.

European leaders had floated the idea that developing nations including Brazil and China could provide funding to buy Euro zone bonds, which would help lower yields and ease pressure on countries such as Spain and Italy.


But Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega echoed calls for Europe to solve its own burgeoning fiscal problems, saying Brazil had no intention of making such purchases.
"I believe that European countries do not need funds from Brazil to buy bonds. Brazil is not considering it," Mantega told reporters in Brasilia. "They have to find solutions to the European problems within Europe."
However, Mantega said Brazil would be willing to provide financial help via the International Monetary Fund.

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Task 7: Education

What percentage of the GDP is spent on education?

• 5.08% of GDP (2007)

How does this compare with the rest of the world?

• 55

What percentage of the population is literate?

• definition: age 15 and over can read and write
• total population: 88.6%
• male: 88.4%
• female: 88.8% (2004 est.)

Is there a major difference in rates of literacy between male and female?

• No, it's a 0.4 difference

How many years is a person expected to attend school?

• total: 14 years
• male: 14 years
• female: 14 years (2008)

Is there a difference between between males and females?

• NO, it's exactly the same

Extention:

Average Years of schooling of adults:

• 4.9

Children out of primary school

• 799.691

Education spending (% of GDP)

• 4.2%

Gender Equality:

Global gender gap:

• Include the raw data here:
• The Global Gender Gap:
• Overall Score:
• Economic Participation and Opportunity
• Educational Attainment:
• Health and Survival:
• Political Empowerment:

Part 8: The maternal mortality rate is: 58 deaths/100,000 live births (2008)

Compared to the world it is: 93
url: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html